Independent Shabab Foundation

The Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) is one of ISF’s projects. It was the writer Sayed Fouad’s idea, as the African films are almost not screened in Egypt. Furthermore, Luxor hardly has any cultural or artistic events, and was therefore selected to de-centralize cultural or artistic events always oraginzed in Cairo and Alexandria.

Why Luxor City?

Though Luxor is the largest open-air museum in the world it was lacking artistic festivals. Its geographical position - in the very heart of Upper Egypt and hence closer to the rest of the African continent - gives the historic city a unique advantage .

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A PLATFORM FOR A NEW AFRICAN FILM MART TO CONNECT THE AFRICAN FILM TO THE REST OF THE WORLD

ETISAL’s mission is to provide to the needs of young African filmmakers in expressing freely their skills and talents through filmmaking and promote their work globally.

African short films is a “life savior” of young filmmakers (Aged between 18-30 of both genders) who are marginalized in terms of production and distribution. Although young filmmakers rep...

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Under the auspices of Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahleb, the Ministers of Culture, Tourism, Youth and Sports and the governor of Luxor are looking forward to welcome the stars of the African continent in Karnak Temple.

The writer Sayed Fouad, President of the Luxor African Film Festival, announced the names of the jury members for the various competitions during this 4th edition, held from 16 to 21 March. Fouad said that juries are composed of Egyptian and African personalities of high cali...